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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   2234 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 5, 2025

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I don't think anything happened that I'm not just about on the same page with, to be honest. The only difference is the inclination to articulate it rather than sticking to norms. As mentioned in a couple of my recent posts about the death penalty, I am really having trouble sticking with politeness around certain issues, and things like Rotherham and Islamist bullshit pretty well top that list.

I more or less fedpost around rotherham too; I may phrase it more politely but the basic inclination of ‘this is when the britons should have started to kill people’ is not that different. I don’t think kulak having the same idea is him going off the rails; lots of people do.

Why is the cat fedposting?

  1. why wouldn't the cat fedpost
  2. if you were smart, you'd be doing the same thing

My reactions and sentiments, what I would think would ideally happen to such people is medieval, modern judicial process is too kind even if it's carried out properly on all which it can never be. My question was for him asking for more violence publicly, if anyone who's not related to the kids or even is goes out and does what Cain Velasques did, the UK will find a good way to spin the story around.

Bad political action is worse than no political action, having the sentiments and calling for them to be carried out are different things. Jan 6 didn't kill millions of bioleninists, neither did charlottesville yet people are spending years behind bars for both.

For clarity - I truly think the kind of punishments that you see via Islamic nations like public humiliation, mass deportations and inclusion of everyone Complicit alongside state actors is the minimum. I subscribe to the idea of not not having formal police and judiciary at the city level or rather a much weaker one because in such a scanrio, you can get justice and tell people to leave your part of the land alone.

That does not happen unfortunately, we live in far more cucked times, any calls for violence will make it worse. I'm not calling for down votes or a ban.

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